1) I just received notice that the distributor of Michael Moore's #PlanetoftheHumans is taking the film down due to misinformation in the film.
Thank you to @FilmsForAction for responding to our demand for a retraction and an apology from @mmflint.
See below. And thank you to… pic.twitter.com/3ZzkLhTVyC— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
Thread on why distributors should "retract" @mmflint's #PlanetoftheHumans.
When Newspapers discover that a story they have printed is factually incorrect, they retract it.
That's what distributors have to do with this god awful piece of misinformation. Michael Moore, #SMH https://t.co/ndg8WXiwUj
— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
3)Like all the distributors of the film that I spoke t, FFA had not seen the film prior to posting it. I don't blame @FilmsForAction for this-they did it bc of @mmflint's reputation. But I think it's strange that Michael Moore would not let anyone see the film before distribution
— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
4)So many people have speculated as to why @mmflint would put up a movie with so many fossil fuel industry talking points and with so many errors, falsehoods and misinformation. I can't guess. We can only ask Michael these questions. He has not responded to our letter. If you ..
— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
I will add here, with deep regret and sadness, that my hero has fallen. I have watched @MMFlint PUNCH UP at authority and hypocrisy with glee for his whole career. He has deeply inspired me and taught me. But now he's the Goliath in the room, PUNCHING DOWN at us.
— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
A multi-millionaire many many many times over, @mmflint is now attacking environmental heroes like @billmckibben, @VanJones68 and even local organizers like the great Nathan Sooy of PA. I cannot sit by and watch that happen. This is not fun, this is terrible.
— Josh Fox ✡️ 🤌🤘 (@joshfoxfilm) April 24, 2020
Update: Distributor backs down:
We put the film back up on the site precisely because of logic like that. We don't want to give the film extra publicity and mystique for getting taken down. However, removing misinformation is far from censorship, but we opted for the media literacy route.
— Films For Action (@FilmsForAction) April 25, 2020
Film For Action announces reversal: “We put the film back up on the site precisely because of logic like that. We don’t want to give the film extra publicity and mystique for getting taken down.”
Exactly. https://t.co/vMMI4exqpp
— Alex Epstein (@AlexEpstein) April 24, 2020
The doc film that should be canceled isn't "Planet of the Humans," it's "Gasland"
The person who should apologize is you, @joshfoxfilm
You *deliberately* mislead millions of people into believing fracking for natural gas caused that sensational fire
Here's the proof
THREAD https://t.co/8H1HFePpph
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
In the trailer to "Gasland," a man stands by his sink with a sign above it reading, Do Not Drink this Water. We then see a congressman saying, with frustration in his voice, “What we’re doing is searching for a problem that does not exist!”https://t.co/zBCwzB4ZjI
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
In the trailer to "Gasland," a man stands by his sink with a sign above it reading, Do Not Drink this Water. We then see a congressman saying, with frustration in his voice, “What we’re doing is searching for a problem that does not exist!”https://t.co/zBCwzB4ZjI
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
"Gasland" cuts back to the man at the sink. He is holding a lit cigarette lighter near the faucet’s tap, igniting huge flames that force him to jump backward
The media picked up on the story and depicted fracking as a significant threat to America’s natural environment
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
But the film’s depiction of the flammable water was deceptive.
In 2008 and 2009, the man from the film and two other Colorado residents filed formal complaints to Colorado’s main oil and gas regulator, the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
The commission took water samples from the three homes and sent them to a private laboratory. The laboratory found that the gas from the man’s faucet and one other home was 100 percent “biogenic,” or natural, and something people have safely dealt with for decades.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
It was created not by frackers but by Mother Nature. The third home had a mixture of biogenic and thermogenic methane; the owner and operator reached a settlement in the case.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
The independent regulator of Colorado’s oil and gas industry took sharp objection to Gasland, noting that it informed producer @joshfoxfilm of the facts of the cases well before he produced his movie, and he chose not to include them
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
People have documented water catching fire naturally for centuries. There are reports of water on fire dating back to the ancient Greeks, Indians, and Persians. We now know that they were naturally occurring methane seeps.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
In 1889, a driller burned his beard after lighting water from a well he drilled in Colfax, Louisiana. There’s a historical marker at the site of the well, which was featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
People have documented water catching fire naturally for centuries. There are reports of water on fire dating back to the ancient Greeks, Indians, and Persians. We now know that they were naturally occurring methane seeps.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
In 1889, a driller burned his beard after lighting water from a well he drilled in Colfax, Louisiana. There’s a historical marker at the site of the well, which was featured in Ripley’s Believe It or Not.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
An Irish documentary filmmaker named Phelim McAleer called out @joshfoxfilm for his mischaracterization of fracking at a 2011 Gasland screening.https://t.co/z9WfE3Yo4K
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
McAleer: There’s a [flaming water] report from 1976 . . .
Fox: Well, I don’t care about the report from 1976. There were reports from 1936 that people say they can light their water on fire in New York State.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
McAleer: I’m curious why you didn’t include relevant reports from 1976 or from 1936 in the documentary? Most people watching your film would think that lighting your water started with fracking.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
You have said yourself people lit their water long before fracking started. Isn’t that correct?
Fox: Yes, but it’s not relevant.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
The Irish filmmaker posted the exchange on YouTube. @joshfoxfilm alleged copyright infringement.
At first @YouTube obeyed Fox’s demand and removed the video, before eventually restoring it.
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) April 24, 2020
Oh they're maaaaaad. Now Michael Moore will learn how if you dont abide by the "my way only" rules, you are a brontosaurus who doesnt believe in science. My how fast they turn…
— Kenneth 老百姓 Rapoza (@BRICbreaker) April 24, 2020
The documentary is available for viewers to watch for free. Apart from its Malthusian conclusion and egregious push for population control, from Forbes review I read, I heard it's worth watching https://t.co/dMiJIj5Nj9
— Gabriella Hoffman (@Gabby_Hoffman) April 24, 2020
So, the director of Gasland, which incorrectly attributes several cases of water well contamination to oil and gas development when the wells in question contained biogenic methane, has a problem with 'misinformation' but only when it contradicts his own agenda. Hunh.
— Phil White – Nihil est verum. Omne est corrumpere. (@HiFiWhiPhi) April 24, 2020
Michael Moore Is Now the Green New Deal’s Worst Enemy – New Film exposes con of ‘green energy’
We visit a “solar powered” music festival where we discover that behind the scenes it is largely powered by diesel generators. We visit an ethanol plant — whose wood has to be harvested using fossil-fuel powered equipment and depends for its operational effectiveness on coal. We visit a lovely old wood beloved by hikers and nature lovers in rural Vermont being trashed to build a wind farm. We see 500-year old yuccas in the Mojave desert being torn up and shredded by diggers to make way for a “clean” energy solar plant. “It was enough to make my head explode,” Gibbs confesses at one point. “Green energy is not going to save us.” …
Gibbs follows the money trail and discovers — quelle surprise! — that the people and organizations most assiduously stoking the war on fossil fuels and most aggressively promoting “renewables” as an alternative are invariably the ones who stand to benefit most financially.
Among the Hall of Shame: Canadian activist Bill McKibben; Al Gore; Van Jones; Robert F Kennedy Jr; Jeremy Grantham; Michael Bloomberg; Richard Branson.
These are revealed to have an unhealthily cozy relationship with green NGOs like the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy, which mouth the usual environmental pieties while yet quietly promoting energy which is every bit as environmentally destructive as fossil fuels.
Directed by environmentalist Jeff Gibbs, the film examines the crony capitalism, corruption and outright deceit and fraud being perpetrated by green energy billionaires, politicians and their spokespeople, like Bill McKibben who is prominently featured. …
The film presents so many examples of green energy fraud and folly: e.g. the insanely low output of wind and sun, corporate green washing, more fossil fuels being burned to prop up green energy systems, false promises of green energy being free and free and clean, all the toxic waste they produce, the mass destruction on precious biotopes, the solar panels are made of sand, biomass is clean and sustainable, to name a few. …
Renowned figures like Al Gore and Bill McKibben and Sierra Club – once revered as environmental heroes – suddenly now come across as swindling villains.
In Lansing Michigan, tonnes of concrete and steel were installed to support a football-field size solar panel system that can supply energy for whole 10 homes for a year. In 20 years it’ll be a field of litter, a monument among many of the Gore’s green energy folly. …
Also in Vermont hectares of mountain forest were removed as the entire Lowell Mountain ridge was blasted to make way for thousands of tonnes of steel and concrete and 21 monster wind turbines which show up for work only one day a week on average. Gibbs says he is supporter of green energy, but painfully had to admit: “Everywhere I encountered green energy, it wasn’t what it seemed.” The many green energy examples he presents in fact cannot operate without traditional energy sources. “Green energies are not even replacing fossil fuels.”
Michael Moore stumbles upon the truth about so-called ‘green’ energy
Gibbs interviews a scientist who researched corporate renewables programs who said, “I haven’t found a single entity anywhere in the world running on 100% solar and wind alone.” The film shows a forest being cut down to build an Apple solar farm. …
Moore still buys into the whole apocalyptic anthropogenic climate change shtick. Even the dangerously wrong Wuhan virus models haven’t taught him that climate change models might be wrong, too. Climate change is a faith, and one doesn’t question the dogma. Rather than becoming a climate change apostate, Moore has come up with a new solution. If we can’t cut down on pollution, we just have to cut down on humans: A better approach, Gibbs suggests, would be people having fewer children. “Infinite growth on a finite planet is suicide,” he says.
Michael Shellenberger: “In truth, humankind has never been at risk of running out of energy. There has always been enough fossil fuels to power human civilization for hundreds and perhaps thousands of years, and nuclear energy is effectively infinite.”
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A new documentary, “Planet of the Humans,” being released free to the public on YouTube today, the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day, reveals that industrial wind farms, solar farms, biomass, and biofuels are wrecking natural environments.
“Planet of the Humans was produced by Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore. “I assumed solar panels would last forever,” Moore told Reuters. “I didn’t know what went into the making of them.”
The film shows both abandoned industrial wind and solar farms and new ones being built — but after cutting down forests. “It suddenly dawned on me what we were looking at was a solar dead zone,” says filmmaker Jeff Gibbs, staring at a former solar farm in California. “I learned that the solar panels don’t last.” …
“Planet of the Humans” notes that Al Gore personally accepted fossil fuel money in 2013 when he and a co-owner sold Current TV to Al Jazeera, which is state-funded by Qatar, the gas-exporting nation whose citizens have the largest per capita carbon footprint in the world. One year earlier, Gore had said the goal of “reducing our dependence on expensive dirty oil” was “to save the future of civilization.” The film shows Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” asking Gore, “You couldn’t find, for your business, a more sustainable choice?” “What is not sustainable about it?” responded Gore. “Because it is backed by fossil fuel money?” said Stewart
Michael Moore Unveils ‘Planet of the Humans’: ‘How Would They Know When It’s Their Time to Go?’
Quotes from Moore’s new documentary:
“The reason we’re not talking about over-population, consumption and the suicide of economic growth, is that would be bad for business – especially, the CANCEROUS FORM OF CAPITALISM that rules the world, now HIDING UNDER A COVER OF GREEN.” (Gore, Sierra Club, Bloomberg, etc.)
“We must take control of our environmental movement and our future from billionaires and their permanent war on Planet Earth. They are not our friends.”
Ultimately, it’s NOT CARBON, but “EVERYTHING WE HUMANS ARE DOING” that is bringing about the “human-caused apocalypse,” the film concludes.
“Have you ever wondered what would happen if a single species took over an entire planet?” “Maybe, they’re cute. Maybe, they’re clever – but, lack a certain, shall we say, self-restraint. What if they go too far? What if they go way, way, way, way, way too far? How would they know when it’s THEIR TIME TO GO?”
